Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published.
The paper has not been submitted and will not be submitted during the submission process in MG&V to another journal for consideration.
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF document file format.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text in the appropriate locations, rather than at the end.
The quality of images and diagrams is suitable for the expected final publication. The images and diagrams are source versions as originally generated, not copied from the screen, scanned or otherwise acquired copies of reduced quality. In particular, they have neither compression nor resizing artefacts, like the artefacts resulting from dithering.
Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
You have read and you agree to observe the "Author Guidelines", inlcuding the "Preparation of the final version" from the "Submissions" section, and the "Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper", available in the "Author Panel", when preparing the final version of your paper, should it be accepted for publication.
You have considered submitting a list (not too short) of potential reviewers, and a list (not too long) of persons which you would like to avoid as reviewers. The lists can be submitted in the window "Comments for the Editor" or as a separate file.

Submission of manuscripts

Submission of a paper for publication in MG&V is taken to imply that the paper was not previously published, and neither has been or is being submitted for publication elsewhere. In addition, it is also taken to imply that permission for publication, if needed, has been granted by the appropriate sources. If the manuscript contains any copyrighted material, the task of obtaining the necessary permissions from the copyright owner(s) is the author(s)'s responsibility. In particular, the images and diagrams having the origin in copyrighted sources will not be published without these permissions.

See also the section on Publication ethics.

No short communications are accepted, as MG&V publishes full papers only.

The author actually submitting the manuscript must enclose a note (cover letter; it can be submitted in the window "Comments for the Editor" or as a separate file) saying that the paper is submitted together with the listed co-authors. Such note is taken to imply that the submitting author has obtained their consent for submitting the paper. One of the authors (e.g., the submitting one) should be indicated as the contact person. Otherwise, all correspondence will be sent to the author who sent the submission or in case of ambiguity to the author listed as the first one.

We encourage the Authors to prepare a list (not too short) of potential reviewers and a list (not too long) of persons which you would like to avoid as reviewers. These lists can be submitted in the window "Comments for the Editor" together with the cover letter, or as a separate file.

The language of the journal is English. The British or American English must be used consequently in a single paper.

The papers should be submitted in one of commonly used file formats (PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT), with the use of the web service of the Journal.

It should be noted that for the submission of a paper for consideration, the LaTeX format, required for the final publication, is not yet necessary (however, it is acceptable, and even advisable; see the following subsections and the subsection on Version for review in the section on Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper).

Preparation of manuscripts

The layout of the text should contain sufficient spacing and margins. Figures and photos should be included in the text. Colour figures are admissible, provided that colour is essential for the presentation. The quality of images and diagrams at the stage of submission should be suitable for the expected final publication. The images and diagrams should be source versions as originally generated, not copied from the screen, scanned or otherwise acquired copies of reduced quality. In particular, they should exhibit neither compression nor resizing artefacts, like the artefacts resulting from dithering.

The number of pages is limited to 25. The Editorial Office may relax this limit in justified cases.

The paper's title, the authors' names, affiliations and addresses, as well as possible thanks and information about funding, should be placed in a separate document (they can be given in the cover letter), and the text proper should not contain any such elements in page headers or footers. The paper submitted for consideration should be free from the information about its Author(s). This is the condition for keeping the double-blindness of the refereeing process (if the Author(s) fail to keep this condition we can anoymize their paper for them, but this makes the process longer, unnecessarily). All the necessary information on the Author(s) as well as other additional elements will be added to the paper's final version following its acceptance.

Charges

At present, we do not charge for the publication. The Article Processing Charges (APC) are zero.

Refereeing process

All papers will be evaluated by one of the Editors, and refereed by at least two specialists in the given area. The refereeing process ensures anonymity of both referees and authors. Suitability for publication will be judged on the basis of the paper's relevance to the overall aims and scope of MG&V, as well as its quality: originality, technical quality, importance and readability. See also the section on Publication ethics.

Acceptance for publication

The authors are informed about the evaluation results and the Editors' decision by e-mail. The acceptance is conditional on fulfilling further requirements concerning preparation of the final version.

The conditionality of the acceptance for publication means that, after the paper is substantively accepted in the review process, it will be published if the Authors fulfil the Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper.

Preparation of the final version

The authors informed about the conditional acceptance are asked to submit the final version of the paper prepared in LaTeX according to the instructions provided in the section on Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper.

The authors are encouraged to send their short scientific CVs and photographs (300*400 pixels at a minimum) together with the final version of the paper. Declinig to do so will be understood as that they do not wish to publish the above.

All the files are to be uploaded through the submission system of the Journal. In addition, the License Agreement should be uploaded. It is provided in the LaTeX package described in the Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper. The Statement contains, among others, the conditions for publication and the confirmation that the paper has not been published elsewhere. It should be signed on paper, scanned and uploaded together with the set of files prepared for final publication.

Each paper undergoes a final correction of English to a limited extent. However, it is the authors' responsibility to make sure that each manuscript is written in clear, correct English. As written before, the British or American English must be used consequently in a single paper. In case of a low standard of the language, the paper will be sent back to the author(s) for correction, which will considerably delay its publication.

The Editorial Office reserves the right to introduce certain changes aimed at preserving a uniform style of the journal's contents.

Published MG&V issue

The list of contents of the issue with abstracts and contents of all papers is placed on the MG&V website. The papers are published as open access. At present, there is no fee for the publication. See also the Accepted Papers Online policy.

The Authors accept the following License Agreement. The Authors acknowledge this Agreement now, at the beginning of the submission process, and later, before the publication, they send us its signed copy. The License Agreement can be found in the LaTeX template for Authors in the section on Technical Requirements for Preparing a Paper.

License Agreement

The authors hereby declare that they are fully aware of the terms on which their article(s), further called works, are accepted for refereeing and publication in the MG&V journal, and accept those terms. Specifically, the authors agree to what follows.

Publication of the works is only possible if the manuscript submitted to MG&V has not been published in any other journal, and will not be and has not been simultaneously submitted for publication, or published elsewhere.

The Editors treat the phenomena of plagiarism, using content generated with AI tools as Authors’ own content, ghostwriting and guest authorship as a sign of scientific dishonesty. If serious misconduct in this respect is discovered, the cases will be exposed, including the notifying of the relevant entities (employers of the authors). The Authors hereby declare that the above phenomena are absent in the publication. The Authors declare that they observe the Ethical Standards of MG&V.

In general, the papers in Machine Graphics & Vision are published according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license – CC BY-NC 4.0.

The authors grant to the publisher the following rights, effective from the date on which the Article is accepted for publication:

the non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, display, distribute and otherwise use the Article, or any part of the Article, for any purpose, in print, electronic and all other media, and to prepare derivative works, in any form, in all languages, throughout the world, for the full term of copyright;
the non-exclusive right to license third parties to exercise all or any of the rights granted herein for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

If the manuscript contains any copyrighted material, it is the authors’ responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions from the copyright owner(s). This concerns in particular, but not exclusively, to images and diagrams. It the copyright allows for publication of a given content, than the information on the copyright type and the link to the original copyright description must be given together with such content.

Subject to the terms of this License Agreement, each author retains the right to re-use the Article for their own commercial and non-commercial purposes, as well as to create derivative works, without permission from Journal Owner or payment to Journal Owner. Each author shall, in connection with any such re-use of the article, fully acknowledge and attribute the original publication of the article Under the same condition Authors may self-archive the paper or an author-created version of their works in their own website(s) and/or in the repository of their department, faculty or funder, or in public scientific archiving services.

Supplemental Materials and Research Data

“Supplemental Materials” shall mean materials published as a supplemental part of the Article, including but not limited to graphical, illustrative, video and audio material.

“Research Data” shall mean the result of observations or experimentation that validate research findings and that are published separate to the Article, which can include but are not limited to raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols and methods.

With respect to any Supplemental Materials and/or Research Data that an author submits, that author retains all rights in such Supplemental Materials and/or Research Data and hereby grants Journal Owner a perpetual worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to publish, extract, reformat, adapt, build upon, index, redistribute, link to and otherwise use all or any part of the Supplemental Materials and/or Research Data in all forms and media, and permit others to do so.

Where Journal Owner and/or the publisher publish the Article on their online platforms on an Open Access basis and publish the Supplemental Materials with the Article, Journal Owner and/or the publisher shall apply the same end user license to the Supplemental Materials as to the Article. Where an author has selected a specific end user license under which the Research Data is to be made available on a site or through a service, Journal Owner and/or the publisher shall apply that end user license to the Research Data on that site or service.

Reversion of rights

Articles may sometimes be accepted for publication but later rejected in the publication process, in which case all rights granted to Publisher under this License Agreement will revert to the author.

Corresponding Author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this statement on behalf of any and all Co-Authors.